October Vagabonds

ffee, and Colin was filling his little pipe. "A daring work of art, a fantastic tour

no more May-apples and strawberries this year," he finished, with a sigh, a

ural things-bugs and birds, all wildwood creatures-had passed into him with unconscious absorption. A sort of boyish unconsciousness, indeed, was the keynote and charm of his nature. A less sophisticated creature never followed the mystic calling of art. Fortunately for me, he was not one of those painters who understand and expound their own work. On the contrary, he was a perfect child about it, and painted for no more mysterious reason than that his eye delighted in beautiful natural effects, and that he l

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